Miller township

Miller: mills, forges and the iron trade

From the county histories, on Miller township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

The place for holding the election in Miller township was fixed at Smith's school-house, near Cornpropst's Mills, and the township officers elected in were as follows: Constable, William Eckley ; Supervisors of Roads, T. S. Jackson and William Allison; Auditors, R. A. Ramsey, E. L. Cox, and William Couch ; Sehool Directors, J. A. Couch, A. L. Couch, M. L. Green, John Henry, and Thomas Milligen. General Industries., A mill was built on Stone Creek about 1828, by Hezekiah Crownover, which was operated by him until his death, the original mill being displaced by the present one about 1848. It is supplied with two runs of stones, and is operated only on custom-work. The present owner is Hezekiah Crownover, Jr. Above that power small saw-mills have been maintained by the Wilsons, Couches, and others. At where was the Couch saw-mill, a few miles below the Jackson line, a forge was built about 1835 by William Couch, which received the name of "Rebecca." This forge was operated upon metal furnished by the Greenwood Furnace, in Jackson, and had a number of owners and lessees. In it was carried on by William McClure, who operated the Couch mills, farther down the stream, at the same time, and was otherwise engaged in the township.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 2,066,872 of the scanned text

Checked against the record. DATES PUT BACK, and they were this site's own doing rather than the scanner's. The passage below promises to print the record exactly as it appears, and it was doing so apart from one thing: sentences kept losing their year. “In an imposing brick church” for “In 1877 an imposing brick church”, “organized in by Rev. Richard Allen” for “organized in 1816 by”. The cause was a rule meant to strip page numbers where a running head had run into the text. It removed any two to four digit number standing between two lowercase words, which is what a page number looks like there, and also what a year looks like in a sentence. Measured against the 1883 county history, the rule fired 2,260 times and 1,896 of those were four-digit years: eight dates deleted for every page number caught. The rule now refuses to touch a number between 1600 and 1999, and it still removes page numbers, which was checked both ways. The dates on this page were restored one at a time from the full text of the book itself.

Sources

J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883)

Checked 2026-09-10 · Quoted from the county histories

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